[gentoo-user] help

[Wes Gray <smiths@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>]

My 3-year old gentoo system has decided to be a big headache.  My
troubles started when I upgraded to kde 3.4.  The kde taskbar apps
wouldn't start.  I tried unmerging kde-base and emerging kdebase-meta
to see if it was related to the kde split, but that didn't help.  I got
the idea that the problem was some old kde packages, so I tried unmerging
everything on my system which was kde related, including some old packages
which are no longer in portage, then I reemerged everything.  THis was
a big mistake as afterwards kde was even more broken, and kde apps like
k3b now don't even work.  I've given up on kde and moved to enlightenment,
but it will be really hard to deal without any kde apps.  Lots of people have
given me advice, but everything I try just seems to make things worse.  It
seems like there is something about old versions of kde that won't go away,
which I don't understand at all.  It seems like if you reemerge something it
should move to the newest versions.  I really could use some help because
I have no idea what to do next.

-Wes
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